Jacques Poitras

Provincial Affairs reporter

Jacques Poitras has been CBC's provincial affairs reporter in New Brunswick since 2000. He grew up in Moncton and covered Parliament in Ottawa for the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal. He has reported on every New Brunswick election since 1995 and won awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association, the National Newspaper Awards and Amnesty International. He is also the author of five non-fiction books about New Brunswick politics and history.

Latest from Jacques Poitras

The Eastern Energy Partnership: Atlantic Canada's big pitch for Carney's nation-building list

The Atlantic provinces have some ambitious ‘nation-building’ proposals to generate and transmit more energy across Canada, under a banner called the Eastern Energy Partnership. Here's it could transform Atlantic Canada for generations to come.

N.B. government will apologize to former P.C. minister for firing

New Brunswick's Liberal government will apologize and pay Margaret-Ann Blaney more than $700,000 after a board ruled her 2014 firing was discriminatory.

A crisis foretold: 3 decades of warnings on N.B.'s aging population

Governments have known for decades the province’s population was aging and they would have to cope with an ever-growing number of seniors needing care. The waiting list for a nursing home bed is more than 1,000, and the premier can only promise it won't get worse.

Former PC cabinet minister in N.B. wins case over firing by Liberals

Former PC MLA Margaret-Ann Blaney won more than $700,000 and an apology after her 2014 firing by a Liberal government was deemed discriminatory and based on her political activity.

Big emissions estimate a worst-case scenario, gas plant builder says

The U.S. company hired to build a natural gas plant in Tantramar says an annual greenhouse gas emissions estimate of 900,000 tonnes per year is a worst-case scenario that is unlikely to happen.

N.B. Power, U.S. company pick Tantramar site for natural gas plant

N.B. Power has changed the location of a proposed natural gas plant it wants to see built in southeast New Brunswick, opting for a remote location in the Tantramar area instead of a site in Scoudouc.

Big N.B. emitters polluted less in 2023, but fell further behind targets

New Brunswick's biggest industrial carbon emitters pumped out lower amounts of greenhouse gases in 2023, but the reductions were not enough to keep pace with tightened emissions standards.
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The People's Alliance is gone, but not forgotten

A protest political party that was once an essential element of New Brunswick conservatism is now non-existent.

Interim PC Leader Glen Savoie won't run in party leadership race next year

Interim Progressive Conservative Leader Glen Savoie won't be a candidate in the party's leadership race next year, the politician announced Friday.

Premier orders Horizon to halt changes to nursing roles

Premier Susan Holt has halted a plan by Horizon Health that would have seen registered nurses and other professionals shuffled into new roles in the areas of public health and mental health and addictions.